The Economics of Cybercrime

The Economics of Cybercrime and the Law of Malware Probability. Great stats on underground malware economics. http://ow.ly/3ovhu

Senate bill to require minimum cybersecurity standards for internet

RT @itsecnews: Infosecurity (US): Senate bill would require minimum cybersecurity standards for internet … http://bit.ly/hV3P15

Latest Stuxnet variant uses encryption to evade analysis

Latest Stuxnet variant evermore capable. Ecrypted bot communication makes it near impossible to analyse how it’s working. http://ow.ly/3nfhC

Image and audio files = attack vector

Didn’t know image, audio & video files were this exploitable. Check out “Malware goes to the movies”: http://ow.ly/3ljNj Kudos @ayampolskiy

If the IRS emails you saying your payment failed: you’ve been hacked

Day-in-the-life of a bankbot. I rec’d the email this article refers to. I wonder who in my 7 degrees is …

New variants mean more work for security researchers

Researcher workload just doubled with discovery of new variant of ZeuS Zbot malware. http://ow.ly/3jOac

Definition: honeypot

A honeypot is a computer or virtual machine that has no actual production use, other than to act as fly …

Zeus and the new wave of sophisticated threats

Zeus appears to be a sea change in the story of malware.